Quotes with sought-after

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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Jim Morrison Expose yourself to your deepest fear: after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Keats Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Davy Crockett Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carrie Fisher Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Martin Bormann Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
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  • Sydney Smith Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bill Simmons Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
    Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Aeschylus For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Johnny Carson For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Doug Larson For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Aeschylus For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bill Cosby For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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